Module development and code questions

Has anyone considered a module, or written one of their own, that will, similar to the way Firefox does for extensions, check for updates to modules (either at a predefined interval or upon admin activation)?

It really is a pain, particularly when using many modules, to conduct periodic manual searches for updates to modules, followed by manually download and installation of those updates.

I can't be the only person who would love to see this functionality.

hi,

do i have to install the whole gallery2 or just add the gallery.module file to the module files? because i keep getting the error: "Unable to initialize embedded Gallery"

i dont know what im doing wrong

Is it possible to create a node of CCK components and then serialize it in some method for distribution?

I'm working on a module to provide data from CiviCRM. Many of the things I need in my module will be needed by other modules (e.g. selecting a CiviCRM group, user or profile). If I can write these up as CCK fields, others can take better advantage of my work.

I'd also like to create some default uses of these fields - pre compiled CCK content types.

Can I serialize them like I can with a view and implant them in static module code?

Thanks
-M

I'm looking to update the taxonomy_context module to have taxonomy based breadcrumbs link to designated nodes instead of taxonomy/term pages.

Background

I'm designing a hierarchical site and plan on making good use of the core taxonomy module, taxonomy_access, and taxonomy_context. taxonomy_context is especially useful for hierarchical sites because it:

• Generates breadcrumbs based on taxonomy, and
• Allows me to display a description of a term (or vocabulary) on taxonomy/term pages.

Proposal

I'd like update the taxonomy_context breadcrumb links to do more than display the term description along with the normal taxonomy/term pages. I want the breadcrumb links to land on an associated "homepage" node for each taxonomy term. I do not want to see the summary list of nodes that the taxonomy core module provides. For example, if I clicked on an "about" breadcrumb, it takes me to a page node I have associated with the "about" term, not the normal taxonomy/term page.

Hi !
Could anybody help me with the creation of a new module to replace the radio buttons and checkboxes with custom images ?

I have the javascript ready to work but I don't know how to put it in a Drupal module. I've found this tutorial http://drupal.org/node/42544 but.... well I'm not so good with php :)

So here's the script

function chgCB(){
CHKB = document.getElementById('newCB').getElementsByTagName('input');
for(i=0; i < CHKB.length; i++){
if(CHKB[i].type == "checkbox"){
IMG = document.createElement('img');
CHKB[i].parentNode.insertBefore(IMG, CHKB[i]);
IMG.src = "radio0.gif";
if(CHKB[i].checked == true) IMG.src = "radion.gif";
if(CHKB[i].disabled == true) IMG.src = "radio.gif";
else{ // Changing state's behaviours are only applied if the box is clickable
CHKB[i].onchange = function(){
IMG = this.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('img')[0];
if(this.checked == true) IMG.src = 'radion.gif'
else IMG.src = 'radio0.gif'
}
if(!window.sidebar){
CHKB[i].parentNode.onclick = function(){
CHK = this.getElementsByTagName('input')[0];
CHK.checked = (CHK.checked == true) ? false : true;
CHK.onchange()
}
}
}
CHKB[i].style.visibility = 'hidden';
CHKB[i].style.position = 'absolute';

I've looked in the modules directory list, but can't find it there. I've also Googled it and followed a link to this site which is now dead...Any ideas?